A hundred years ago, astronomer Edwin Hubble dramatically expanded the size of the known universe. At a meeting of the American Astronomical Society ...
The starburst galaxy NGC 1569 glows brilliantly, illuminated by the light of millions of newly formed young stars. This image of LH63, cloaked in red, was captured by the Hubble Space Telescope and ...
Astrophotographers use sophisticated imaging technology to take and edit photographs that bring us the cosmos with startling ...
Saturn’s rings, imaged here by NASA’s Cassini orbiter, are one of the solar system’s most reliably spectacular sights. But ...
The program’s overall contract is worth up to $4.82 billion and over the next five years, Viasat will have a piece of that work. From there, NASA has the option to extend the contract an additional ...
The Hubble Space Telescope completes a high-resolution portrait of our galaxy's gorgeous neighbor, which will help scientists better understand our Milky Way.
Astronomers have released the most comprehensive photograph of the Andromeda galaxy, which contains over 200 million stars.
The data used to create the image is from a Hubble Space Telescope project to capture and map Jupiter's superstorm system.
Around 2015, astronomers took on the painstaking task of stitching together Hubble Space Telescope images of this galaxy, but that effort had focused on the galaxy's northern half. Still, however, the ...
Hubble Space Telescope mapped Andromeda, revealing a chaotic history shaped by mergers. A 2.5-billion-pixel mosaic shows 200 ...
Rethinking the Underlying Trigger of Quasar Jets Building on the groundbreaking 2020 discovery of newborn jets in several ...